Research project

Physics & Tech of Photonic Metadevices & Metasystems

Research groups:

Nanophotonics Group

Electrochemistry
Lead researcher:

Professor Nikolay Zheludev
Other researchers:

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden,

Dr Eric Plum,

Professor David Richardson,

Professor Otto Muskens
Research funder:

EPSRC
Status:

Not active

Staff

Lead researcher

Professor Nikolay Zheludev

Professor of Physics & Astronomy

Connect with Nikolay

Email: niz@orc.soton.ac.uk

Other researchers

Emeritus Professor Brian Hayden

Connect with Brian

Email: B.E.Hayden@soton.ac.uk

Dr Eric Plum

Principal Research Fellow

Connect with Eric

Email: erp@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor David Richardson FREng, FRS

Research interests

Hollow Core Optical Fibres
Optical Communications
High Power Fibre Lasers

Connect with David

Email: djr@orc.soton.ac.uk

Professor Otto Muskens

Professor of Physics

Research interests

Programmable photonic circuits using ultralow loss phase change materials.
Infrared metasurfaces for radiative cooling and defence applications.
Deep learning and AI enabled nanophotonic design.

Connect with Otto

Email: O.Muskens@soton.ac.uk

Collaborating research institutes, centres and groups

Electrochemistry

A well-established world-class group researching energy charge transfer that affects many facets of life.

Nanophotonics Group

We perform fundamental optical physics and materials research. This is critical for the discovery and development of new and improved optoelectronic technologies.

Quantum, Light and Matter Group

Our research group examines the connections between physics, chemistry and engineering.

Research outputs

Engineering the collapse of lifetime distribution of nitrogen-vacancy centers in nanodiamonds

Hao Li, Jun-Yu Ou, Behrad Gholipour, Jinkyu So, Davide Piccinotti, Vassili Fedotov & Nikitas Papasimakis, 2021, Applied Physics Letters, 118(26)

DOI: 10.1063/5.0054780

Type: article

Flat photonic devices based on nanomechanical metamaterials driven by light, sound, electric and magnetic signals

Jinxiang Li, Tongjun Liu, Kevin F. MacDonald, Jun-Yu Ou, Dimitrios Papas, Eric Plum & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021

Type: conference

Decay rate enhancement of diamond NV-centers on diamond thin films

Hao Li, Jun-Yu Ou, Vassili Fedotov & Nikitas Papasimakis, 2021, Optics Express, 29(6), 25626-25631

DOI: 10.1364/OE.425706

Type: article

Deeply Sub-Wavelength Non-Contact Optical Metrology of Sub-Wavelength Objects

Carolina Rendon-Barraza, Eng Aik Chan, Guanghui Yuan, Giorgio Adamo, Tanchao Pu & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021, Applied Physics Letters, 6(6)

DOI: 10.1063/5.0048139

Type: article

Asymmetric transmission in Nano-opto-mechanical Metamaterials at μW power levels

Jinxiang Li, Kevin F. MacDonald & Nikolai Zheludev, 2021

Type: conference